Free Sex

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4439633
AutoresHeather Berg (autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume122
Fascículo3
Páginas505-523
Data de publicação2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-10644001
OpenAlexW4386123423
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas20

Grounded in sex worker theory, this essay explores paid sex as a confrontation with free sex. Sex worker theorists name an ambivalent relationship to radical feminist thought, finding theoretical affinities in radical feminism's critiques of unpaid heterosexuality while also disidentifying with its whorephobia, whiteness, gender essentialism, and narratives of false conscious. In an invitation for a radical feminism that commits to radical politics, they frame unpaid heterosexuality as a site of exploitation and romance as a bad deal. They articulate a critique of free sex with cis men, but one that is rigorously attentive both to questions of subjectivity and to the inadequacy of gender as a coherent analytic

Ambivalence · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist theory · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology